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Oxygen wants to show the nation how tough it is to be a female stand-up comedian with its new docuseries Funny Girls (working title). The series showcases up-and-coming female comics in Los Angeles as "they strive to break the glass ceiling in the male-dominated comedy...

Microsoft is getting serious about creating original programming for its Xbox One. Xbox Entertainment Studios has turned to Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera and Seth Green for comedy shows to stream on the video game-turned-entertainment console, which currently retails for about...

Police Academy will reportedly get a reboot produced by recent Peabody Award winners Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Talks of a relaunch of the 1980s comedy franchise began four years ago and the smash success of the pair's Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele surely...

Saturday Night Live alum Tracy Morgan won't fuddle around with a pilot for FXX. The comedy-centric sister channel of FX has given a straight-to-series order for a Morgan-starred show. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creators Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton...

Aisha Tyler's New York Times best-seller Self-Inflicted Wounds is coming to CBS. The Eye Network's in-house production company CBS Television Studios has optioned the comedian's book for a potential half-hour comedy series. Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic...

Late night talk show legend David Letterman will announce his 2015 retirement on tonight's edition of Late Show with David Letterman. When a monstrous announcement like this is to be made, a press release is usually sent to media outlets or it is agreed that the star will break...

Will Ferrell is set to play Bobby Riggs in Match Maker, a movie about the legendary "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match in 1973. The drama, likely to have punchlines laced throughout, comes from writer Steve Conrad who also wrote the recent Ben Stiller film The...

Stand-up comedian and radio host Artie Lange has kidnapped shamed baseball legend Pete Rose! Oh no! Well, actually, Pete Rose is just fine. The only person who tied the retired Major League Baseball star was Lange's cartoonist. A new video from Rug Burn's YouTube page features...

Samuel L. Jackson dropped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night to promote his upcoming film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. What he ended up doing was making 90s children everywhere lose their minds. Jackson performed some slam poetry about the classic...